It’s an era of change for Canada’s oil and gas companies as producers come under increasing regulatory, environmental and social pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the sustainability of their operations.
August 4, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Primary energy consumption fell slightly in 2015 as a decline in coal use exceeded increases in natural gas, petroleum, and renewables use. In most cases, changes between 2014 and 2015 reflect longer-term trends in energy use.
July 22, 2016, 8:23 AM MDT
July 5, 2016, 9:56 AM MDT
It is increasingly plausible to foresee a future in which cheap renewable electricity becomes the world’s primary power source and fossil fuels are relegated to a minority status, says a new report.
June 16, 2016, 7:39 AM MDT
As Alberta and Saskatchewan set higher targets for renewable power generation, developers and financial lenders are optimistic of the prospect of new projects, yet they wait for more details from the respective governments.
June 10, 2016, 10:49 AM MDT
June 3, 2016, 11:04 AM MDT
June 1, 2016, 9:51 AM MDT
While more Canadian-based companies in the energy sector may be looking to invest in jurisdictions where environmental regulations are weaker, that ultimately will only delay an inevitable and needed shift to technologies that tackle climate change, says the author of a report by the Calgary-based Canada West Foundation.
May 31, 2016, 8:17 AM MDT
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May 19, 2016, 8:23 AM MDT
The Alberta and British Columbia governments are having discussions about the possibility of Alberta obtaining hydro-electric power from B.C. should Alberta obtain access to tidewater for its crude oil, says a spokesperson for Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.
April 21, 2016, 11:46 AM MDT
Climate change presents environmental, political, social and economic challenges worldwide. As the pressure mounts for global leaders to take action to meet the commitments they made at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, Canada’s provincial governments are adopting policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the absence of a national climate change strategy.
April 12, 2016, 7:21 AM MDT
Mexico’s first ever long-term renewable power auction, held last week, was a “ringing success,” says a columnist and former senior government employee who observes the country’s power sector and oil and gas reform process.
April 6, 2016, 9:09 AM MDT
The world is shifting to cleaner fuels for electricity generation, led by gas, according to an outlook by Exxon Mobil Corporation. Coal’s share is forecast to shrink while natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar gain. The shift to cleaner fuels will be driven by tighter CO2 emissions and air quality policies.
March 4, 2016, 7:46 AM MST
Most fossil fuel companies pay as little attention to competition from radical energy efficiency as whalers paid to the 1857 invention of a new clean-burning kerosene lamp that killed their industry, a world-renowned energy-efficiency expert recently told a Calgary crowd.
March 3, 2016, 8:44 AM MST
Climate change presents environmental, political, social and economic challenges worldwide. As the pressure mounts for global leaders to take action to meet the commitments they made at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015, Canada’s provincial governments are adopting policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the absence of a national climate change strategy.
February 16, 2016, 6 AM MST
U.S. shale gas and tight oil production will continue to surge while renewable sources of energy are projected to grow faster than earlier estimated, BP said today.
February 10, 2016, 11:51 AM MST
November 26, 2015, 9:03 AM MST
Enbridge Inc. says it has acquired a 24.9 per cent interest in the 400 megawatt Rampion Offshore Wind project in the United Kingdom.
November 5, 2015, 9:46 AM MST
The senior executive overseeing Calgary-based Atco Group’s new Mexican division says he believes the country is “very very serious” about the reform of its oil and gas and power sectors and his company will have a growing role in the country’s economy.
September 24, 2015, 8:12 AM MDT
Alberta must take credible action on climate change in order to secure its economic future, according to the province’s environment and parks minister.
September 14, 2015, 8:05 AM MDT
Critics of efforts by Mexico’s monopoly power utility to open up the country’s electricity market to private sector competition — a move that to date has attracted the likes of Canadian pipeline and power giants TransCanada Corporation and ATCO Gas & Pipelines, as well as Toronto-based solar power producer SkyPower — say the market is rigged in favour of the state-owned monopoly, which has kept power prices artificially low.
August 21, 2015, 11:10 AM MDT
Suncor EnergyInc. has reached an agreement with TransAlta Corporation to exchange Suncor’s Kent Breeze and its share of the Wintering Hills wind power facilities for TransAlta’s Poplar Creek cogeneration facilities.
July 8, 2015, 10:17 AM MDT
June 23, 2015, 11:16 AM MDT
World consumption of the top six primary sources of energy — oil, coal, renewables, hydroelectric, natural gas and nuclear — grew by 0.9 per cent last year, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2015. That marked the slowest growth rate since 1998 other than the decline in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
June 15, 2015, 11:28 AM MDT
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